Current Work and Musings about Photography

There is a level called "The plateau" in nearly every photographers or artist life.It is the level where you feel your good, that your images are good, but also the level where you not feeling that your art is improving any further.

You have mastered your camera, you have mastered the rules of composition, you know how to make decent shots of most topics some can shot.But you feel that your images often lack this kind of mojo, this special twist the images of the great masters of photography often have.

I have felt that I reached plateau since early this year and even if I thought before that hitting plateau won’t affect me it did. The first time in nearly 7 years of shooting I had a lack of motivation to create new images or work on my photographs I did shot. For the first time I felt unhappy with my photography.

Some days ago I chatted with a friend about arts and photography.After a while she said that I really know how to create good images. And suddendly she asked me- “Can you explain me what you wanna create?Can you tell me what kind of stories you want to tell?"

My answer was: “ I really don’t know myself”.. Suddenly I realized that I have lost track about the WHAT I want to create and what I want to tell.And thinking about it more I also found that I lost my WHY i shot.

I don’t know if you are familiar with Simon Sineks TED Talk about the WHY -HOW- WHAT. If not I can strongly recommend watching it. Is is really really mind changing and maybe even life changing. Simon Sinek points out that the WHY is what inspires us. That the WHY is what you makes happy, That the WHY is what you keeps going on.

So what is my WHY in photography?My WHY is that I want to show people my inner truth of the world.

My WHY is to show the beauty of this world as I am allowed to experience is and to cheer people.

My WHY is to create artworks which express the energy and emotions I do feel inside of me.

My WHY is that I want to create visual poems somewhere in between romantic, impressionism, modernism and abstract expressionism to express myself.

And what kind of stories I wanna tell?I wanna tell stories about of the impressions of people I met and encounters I had, of experiences of cities I have lived and places I have visited. Either close to reality and clear or blurred or even abstract. I wanna tell about art pour l'art and how images which are fully subjective let every viewer discover it's own messages.​

Thanks my friend for open up my ideas and let me rediscover my WHY and WHAT.

The Energy and Process series consists ofmulti-technique (Photography and PC) images, each is originatingfrom a digital photography, no additional textures or add ons.

The contrast of light and darkness, colors , graphical and free forms in those images remind me of elements, energies which react with each other, which seem to be alive in an ongoing process. I create abstract art which shows mundane things transformed into the unknown.

The Energy and Process series consists ofmulti-technique (Photography and PC) image, each is originatingfrom a digital photography, no additional textures or add ons.

The contrast of colors and free forms in those images remind me of elements, energies which react with each other, which seem to be alive in an ongoing process. I create abstract art which shows mundane things transformed into the unknown.

The Energy and Process series consists ofmulti-technique (Photography and PC) image, each is originatingfrom a digital photography, no additional textures or add ons.

The contrast of colors and free forms in those images remind me of elements, energies which react with each other, which seem to be alive in an ongoing process. I create abstract art which shows mundane things transformed into the unknown.

Stone Tōrōs are a very typical thing to find in Japanese Gardens, even if they are originated from Chinese garden culture.

Normally they are made out of 5 elements builing up each other,
each of the elements representing one of the 5 elements
Earth, water, fire, air and void

The element on the bottom stands for the earth itself
while the 2nd section represents water.
The fire is represented by the lantern itself,
the roof stands for the air
and the top element connecting to the sky represents the void or spirit.

Photography is a past time for me.
Most often I do shot all alone, just me and my camera, like a hermit searching for enlightment.

But my photography wouldn't have developed without the connection to other photographers via social networks, in particular Google Plus in my case.

This year marks my 5th anniversary that I discovered G+, and this event changed my life!

G+ let me find photographers from all over the world and see their images.
G+ was the platform which enabeled Robin Griggs Wood to held her GMAPP Mentorships, which I had the the luck to be a mentee of.
G+ gave me friends, some I met already in real life, some maybe I will,
G+ changed my photography forever!!!

Thank you.
And thank you my friends!!!
Apologize that I can't mention all of you..

but you all important to me whenever our lives intersected and with some of you I
m allowed to be connected :)

Thank you for this!

Series: Celestials

More here:https://plus.google.com/collection/oDyZXor on my website:http://www.heikomahr-photography.co/The Celestial series are digitally transformed of imagesof clouds, moon, sun and stars and their spatial relationships.The forms still look familiar to our eyes and mundane.But on a second look there is a mysterium, something our sensesseem not to be able to understand in the first momentbehind our reality.
​#abstract#celestials #sky #photography﻿ ﻿

“A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.”Diane Arbus

The abstract images in the "The Energy & Process" series all originated as digital photographs.
Many are digitally processed.
My work is all original, except by way of inspiration from abstract expressionist artists of the
1950s, such as Pollock, Rothko or of Cy Twombly, and others. As I work with the shifting (or varying) colors and fluctuating (or free) forms in these images,
I am reminded of the interaction between elements and energy. Color and form come alive in my
imagination and become a part of the ongoing process of life. Abstract images are my way of
showing how mundane things can be transformed into mystery; a mystery that calls each of us
to explore, discover and embrace in their own way. If you are interested to see more you can aquire my Book "From Energy and Impression"

Colliding

siamese sibblings - once

colliding on a frontier
which could be
a paradise

Doomed for darkness

The abstract images in the "The Energy & Process" series all originated as digital photographs.
Many are digitally processed.

My work is all original, except by way of inspiration from abstract expressionist artists of the
1950s, such as Pollock, Rothko or of Cy Twombly, and others. As I work with the shifting (or varying) colors and fluctuating (or free) forms in these images,
I am reminded of the interaction between elements and energy. Color and form come alive in my
imagination and become a part of the ongoing process of life. Abstract images are my way of
showing how mundane things can be transformed into mystery; a mystery that calls each of us
to explore, discover and embrace in their own way. If you are interested to see more you can aquire my Book "From Energy and Impression"​

Cracks of reality

Common believe -
what we see is what is reality!
but
each of us
has another viewpoint

​ The abstract images in the "The Energy & Process" series all originated as digital photographs.
Many are digitally processed.
My work is all original, except by way of inspiration from abstract expressionist artists of the
1950s, such as Pollock, Rothko or of Cy Twombly, and others. As I work with the shifting (or varying) colors and fluctuating (or free) forms in these images,
I am reminded of the interaction between elements and energy. Color and form come alive in my
imagination and become a part of the ongoing process of life. Abstract images are my way of
showing how mundane things can be transformed into mystery; a mystery that calls each of us
to explore, discover and embrace in their own way. If you are interested to see more you can aquire my Book "From Energy and Impression"

Categories

A feminist is anyone
who recognizes the equality
and full humanity
of women
and men -Gloria Steinem-​

Series Energy & ProcessThe Energy and Process series consists ofmulti-technique (Photography and PC) image,
each is originating from a digital photography,
no additional textures or add ons.

The contrast of colors and free forms in those images remind me of elements, energies which react with each other, which seem to be alive in an ongoing process. I create abstract art which shows mundane things transformed into the unknown.